Use Macbook As Keyboard For Imac

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Use Macbook As Keyboard For Imac

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Mobile Mouse Remote is a great app that turns your iOS device into a powerful utilitarian accessory for your Mac or PC. So far, we’ve shown you how the app can be used as a mouse or trackpad for your computer and how you can use the app as a remote control for your computer, but it also has a lot of keyboard functionality built into it to make your device into a software-based keyboard for. Bonus pro-tip: Option-Command-Eject also puts your computer to sleep; it’s one of many advanced keyboard shortcuts Apple details in a knowledge base article on its Website.

This is the ultimate guide for working with MacBook keyboards, including accessing special functions, characters, accents, and using keyboard shortcuts in Mac OS system. Click on the list below to jump to an appropriate section.

MacBook Keyboard Diagram / Map

MacBook keyboard has few distinctive sections: Function keys (in light blue), which provides access to various functions in MacBook itself or Mac OS system. By combining them with the FN key, you'll get access to F1 - F12 keys, which can be associated with particular application features (useful in Photoshop for example).

The second section is the modifier keys (in light yellow). Shift allows to type uppercase letters and other additional characters. Command and Alt/Option are used in keyboard shortcuts, as well as the Control key, which is used almost exclusively by Mac OS X and Apple programs.

Return and left Shift has two variants, one used in the US and Eastern Asia (horizontal Return and long Shift), and second, used in Europe, Middle East and Africa (vertical Return and short left Shift). On the diagram, this is shown by dashed lines. Of course, MacBook keyboards have lots of localizations, the most common - US English - is shown above. If you're unsure about the localization you have, go and check it with this guide.

MacBook Air 11' has slightly different keyboard, with smaller top and bottom row keys to accommodate smaller laptop size. Newest MacBooks Pro with TouchBar don't have upper F keys row, instead, they have a touchscreen which changes displayed options based on context.

MacBook Keyboard Symbols Chart

Symbol	Meaning	Notes
Screen brightness down
Screen brightness up
Launches Mission Control	Icon available on MacBooks Unibody
Launches Mission Control	Icon available on MacBooks pre-unibody
Launches Dashboard	Icon available on MacBooks Unibody
Launches Dashboard	Icon available on MacBooks pre-unibody
Keyboard backlight down
Keyboard backlight up
Rewind
Play / Pause
Fast Forward
Sound: mute
Sound: volume down
Sound: volume up
Eject	Available on MacBooks with CD/DVD drive
Power	Available on MacBooks without CD/DVD drive
Command	On MacBooks 1st generation this is replaced by Apple logo
Alt / Option	Available on European/ISO keyboard layouts
Tab	Available on European/ISO keyboard layouts
Backspace	Available on European/ISO keyboard layouts
Shift	Available on European/ISO keyboard layouts
Caps Lock	Available on European/ISO keyboard layouts
Return	Available on European/ISO keyboard layouts
Enter	Available on European/ISO keyboard layouts, accessed with FN key
Delete	Not on MacBooks, but worth knowing
Clear	Not on MacBooks, but worth knowing
Home	Not on MacBooks, but worth knowing. Can be substituted by CMD + up arrow shortcut.
End	Not on MacBooks, but worth knowing. Can be substituted by CMD + down arrow shortcut.
Page Up	Not on MacBooks, but worth knowing
Page Down	Not on MacBooks, but worth knowing
Arrows	Used to move things or pointer

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MacBook Keyboard Special Characters and Accents Map

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If you want to type special characters or accents, change your keyboard language to US International PC (thanks, Steve!) and use the map below to get them. You can also check out our solution to the two languages on one keyboard problem.

Where is the Print Screen Button?

Unlike PC keyboard, there is no Print Screen key on MacBook keyboard. This functionality is accessed by keyboard shortcuts and - on Mac - you have greater flexibility:

Command + Shift + 3 - captures entire screen;
Command + Shift + 4 - captures selected region. Your cursor turns to crosshair and by clicking and dragging you can specify which area you want to capture;
Command + Shift + 4 + Space - captures selected window. First press the shortcut from above, then - when you have crosshair - hit Space. The cursor will turn to the camera and the active window will have a blue overlay. Click on it to get it captured.

In some apps, like Photoshop, you need to add Control into the mix, to paste the screenshot into the app.

MacBook Keyboard Tricks

There's a lot you can do in Mac OS by using the keyboard only. Here's a list of highly useful and not-so-useful keyboard shortcuts:

Shortcut	Action
Command + W	Quickly closes the active window in Safari or any other browser. Works also with many applications, like Pages, Numbers, Photoshop. Great way to quickly close something when your boss is coming around :)
Command + H	Hides the active application. Useful for hiding something quickly ;)
Option + Shift + F11/F12	Makes tiny changes in volume level instead of standard jumps.
Control + Option + Command + 8	Reverses colors on the screen.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9	When watching YouTube video, this will advance you to 10%, 20%, 30%... of movie completion.
Option + Delete	Deletes whole word in text editors
Control + Command + V	Pastes copied text without formatting. Useful when copying something from Pages and pasting into eg. Wordpress :)
Control + Command + Option + Eject/Shutdown	Shuts down the MacBook without the need to provide username and password.
Command + Shift + A	Opens the Applications folder in Finder.
Command + Shift + U	Opens the Utilities folder in Finder.
Command + Shift + D	Opens the Desktop folder in Finder.
Command + Shift + I	When in Safari, this shortcut copies the URL, opens Mail app and creates a new email with the copied URL pasted as a link in a message.
Command + Option + M	Minimizes all open windows, showing Desktop.
Command + Option + Shift + Esc	Hold for 3 seconds to force quit any app.
Command + Tab	Cycle through opened apps from left to right.
Command + Shift + Tab	Cycle through opened apps from right to left.
Command + `	Cycles through active app windows.
Command + Q	Quit active app.
Command + T	Opens a new tab in Finder. Opens a new tab in a web browser.
Command + N	Creates new Finder window.
Command + Shift + N	Creates new folder in Finder.
Command + Space	Launches Spotlight.
Command + Option + Space	Switches to next keyboard language (if you have more than one).
Command + Control + Space	In some websites and apps this will give you the emoji keyboard.
Command + Delete	Sends selected files/folders to trash.
Fn + Delete	Deletes text from left to right.
F10 + Shutdown	Hold while launching MacBook to get a silent start.
Command + up arrow/down arrow	Jump to the beginning or end of a page. This is equivalent to PC's Home and End keys.
Command + up arrow + L	Highlights the address bar in a web browser.

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